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Why Hungarian Is So Difficult To Learn (And Why You Should Learn It Anyway)

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Are Gendered Words like “Mankind” Inherently Sexist?

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What The Turing Test Tells Us About The Future Of Technology

The age of talking robots is here. Amazon Alexas and Google Assistants are popping up in homes, and ...

Jargon Watch: Lawyer Speak And The Language Of Law

Jargon is often impenetrable to the people outside a profession. That’s the whole idea behind this...

The Inadvertent Origins Of 8 Misleading Animal Names

Animal names color the whole world when we’re young. Not only do creatures live in the environ...

The 1950s Slang Phrases That Defined The Decade

It’s a universal truth that each new generation of teens invents its own slang. And it’s...

Read The World: 10 Books About Stockholm

Stockholm is situated in an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. Because of its unique geographic placemen...

8 German Words You’ll Struggle To Pronounce (If You’re Not German)

The German language has a reputation for being hard to pronounce, but, to be fair, it’s somewhat u...

The 20 Most Common Dutch Verbs And How To Use Them

So you want to learn Dutch, and you’re really motivated, but you don’t know where to beg...

How To Say ‘I’m Sorry’ In 10 Different Languages

Often the best way to end a fight is to admit you were wrong and apologize.  If apologizing in ...

Cants And Anti-Languages: The Hidden World Of Secret Languages

Accents and dialects have been well studied and valued by linguists, but cants continue to be a myst...

How To Talk About Family In Italian

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